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William Gibson Says Today's Internet Is Nothing Like What He Envisioned

Gibson's latest is Agency — set in a future where climate change has mostly wiped out humanity. The cyberpunk godfather says today's online world is "utterly banal" compared to his original vision.
Source: Michael O'Shea

William Gibson writes visionary stories — in his early work, he imagined an information superhighway long before the Web existed. But in a dozen novels over the last 35 years, Gibson has stalked closer and closer to the present.

His latest, , has a complicated plot that jumps between the far future and the immediate present; Gibson says his favorite type of science fiction requires time and

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